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Of the 104 entries into figure skating events at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, 26 skaters from 11 countries had their music composed right here in Naples.

Alex Goldstein, 65, has been putting together music for the world’s top athletes since 1971. This is the 11th Winter Olympics he’s worked on. He also designed music for athletes in six Summer Olympics.

Goldstein spent the past year editing music for ice skaters from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Japan, China, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong, France, Uzbekistan and Estonia. His music will be heard during the routines of both unknowns and top contenders.

U.S. figure skater Gracie Gold and ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White are among his best-known clients. Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the U.S.’ first gold medal in ice dancing Monday and the silver medal at the 2010 games. Gracie Gold won the gold medal at the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and will skate her final program today in Sochi after her short program Wednesday.

Goldstein’s work takes place in his high-tech studio in North Naples, where he sits in front of a bank of computers making intricate changes and additions to the music. His work takes many forms. For some clients he chooses and puts together the music. For other clients he adds or subtracts part of a song to help it match the skater’s moves.

The coach for Davis and White sent Goldstein a video of his skaters with notes on where he needed changes in the music. Goldstein then hired a musician and recorded an upbeat tune that was inserted throughout the skater’s piece to liven up the music to match moves the skaters were making during the routine.

“I need to make the music to the order of the elements and by timing,” Goldstein explained. “It is the most difficult way to do music. It is most challenging to add three, four or five seconds to music without breaking the music or the sound. It is difficult, but everything is possible.”

Goldstein began working on Davis and White’s music about 10 months ago and did one final tweak to the piece just a week before the Olympics began. He said some client’s music takes up to a year while others take several months to complete.

“For the current Canadian Olympic champions in ice dancing I made 27 versions of their dance,” Goldstein said as he explained that every time a change was made to the choreography he was called in to make changes to the music.

“Sometimes I do it in my computer and sometimes I need musicians to play some parts in the recording studio,” Goldstein said about his work. “Sometimes they send videos of the skaters and sometimes I go see them.”

With so many skaters as clients, Goldstein works hard to make each one something special.

“I won’t put them in the position of having the same type of music,” Goldstein said. “My approach is to find something unique for all of them and something that is the best for them. Each skater is different and I find what is best for them.”

Goldstein said good music is key to an Olympian’s success. Having the right music playing at the right time to match their moves along with having powerful, clean music can really help the skaters win.

As Goldstein spends time the next few weeks watching the Olympics, he is watching much more than the athletes. He is watching them succeed with his music.

“I’m nervous,” he admitted. “I’m afraid for them because I want them to win.”

His wife, Marina Berkovich, said the hardest part is knowing whom to root for because he has so many clients in the Olympics.

“We cheer for all of them,” she said. “We support all of our competitors. We think that’s what the Olympic Games are all about.”

Goldstein was born in Russia to a musical family. His father was a French horn player in the Bolshoi Orchestra and his uncle played the French horn for the Red Army Theater. When Goldstein was just 6 years old, he began studying at The Gnessin School of Music in Moscow, one of the most prestigious music educational centers in the world. He completed his music education 16 years later when he graduated from The Gnessin Academy of Music with a master’s degree in conducting and French horn. He started composing music in 1976 in Moscow.

Since then, he has composed music scores for 26 feature films, two silent classics, about 300 documentary films and animations, along with radio and TV shows, circus and stage shows, commercials and sports programs around the world. His clients have won 38 Olympic Medals and more than 110 World Medals using the music that he either edited, arranged or composed.

Goldstein moved from Moscow to New York City in 1991. He and his wife moved to Naples in 2005 where the Russian-American music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and founder of ABG World and SportMusic.com continues to produce documentary films and compose music.